Why is there a large performance impact when looping over an array with 240 or more elements?

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When running a sum loop over an array in Rust, I noticed a huge performance drop when CAPACITY >= 240. CAPACITY = 239 is about 80 times faster.

Is there special compilation optimization Rust is doing for “short” arrays?

Compiled with rustc -C opt-level=3.

use std::time::Instant;

const CAPACITY: usize = 240;
const IN_LOOPS: usize = 500000;

fn main() {
    let mut arr = [0; CAPACITY];
    for i in 0..CAPACITY {
        arr[i] = i;
    }
    let mut sum = 0;
    let now = Instant::now();
    for _ in 0..IN_LOOPS {
        let mut s = 0;
        for i in 0..arr.len() {
            s += arr[i];
        }
        sum += s;
    }
    println!("sum:{} time:{:?}", sum, now.elapsed());
}

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